When I walked out of Li Shiji, it was Chai Yan in front and Yan Xuehuai in back.

Chai Yan turned around from time to time to look at Yan Xuehuai, as if he was always afraid that she would throw him off and turn back. When he turned around again, the eyes of the two happened to hit him, and Chai Yan simply stopped and smiled at Yan Xuehuai, with warmth in his eyes.

Yan Xue subconsciously touched her face. The weather was a little hot today.

"Huai...Miss Yan."

With a sudden sound, Yan Xuehuai looked to the side of the road, and Zhang Xiaoping, who was carrying a schoolbag, was looking at her.

"Hey, it's Brother Xiaoping. I finished school so early today."

Zhang Xiaoping's eyes moved from Yan Xuehuai's face to Chai Yan, who narrowed his eyes slightly and glanced at him.

Zhang Xiaoping quickly moved his eyes away, and the young master looked a little unkind.

"The school was closed a few days ago, and the class was officially started tomorrow. Today I just went to clean the school, so I came back earlier."

Yan Xuehuai smiled and said, "So that's the case. The school will start tomorrow. Brother Xiaoping works harder to make up for the previous delayed courses as soon as possible."

Zhang Xiaoping's cheeks were covered with red clouds, and the words "Brother Xiaoping" were said from Miss Yan's mouth, which sounded particularly nice.

"Actually, I've been studying at home..."

Yan Xuehuai showed a sudden enlightenment and shook his fists at Zhang Xiaoping: "So that's it. Brother Xiaoping is so hardworking, come on!"

Zhang Xiaoping didn't understand why Yan Xuehuai asked him to cheer up, and it wasn't cooking, so why did he cheer up.

But Zhang Xiaoping didn't dare to ask, and he smiled shyly: "Miss Yan has gone too far, I will work hard."

I will study hard, get fame and fortune as soon as possible, and shorten the gap with you.

Just after thinking about this, Zhang Xiaoping felt like a deer was stuffed into his heart. He quickly lowered his head, trying to hide his little thoughts.

Yan Xuehuai waved at him: "Brother Xiaoping, go study, I'm leaving!"

It was not until Yan Xuehuai walked far away that Zhang Xiaoping dared to raise his head and looked at the two figures in the distance. Zhang Xiaoping suddenly thought that the boy with a bad-looking look was walking with Miss Yan.

Zhang Xiaoping spent all his time studying. Even when he came to the shop, Zhang Wushao couldn't bear to ask him to help, and he was still studying.

Therefore, he didn't know Chai Yan, but he just felt familiar. It seemed that he had seen Huichang Street before, and people were so busy every day. It was possible that he had seen it. Zhang Xiaoping remembered Yan Xuehuai's words praising him for his diligence. He felt warm in his heart. He couldn't wait to go back to the shop, put on the curtain, and regardless of the noise outside, he focused on reading.

Yan Xuehuai and Chai Yan walked to Shan Bo's stall. The weather gradually became hotter. Shan Bo moved the broken tables to the shaded place. There was still a distance on the roadside where the shaded place was, and it was a good place to talk.

"Do you know that sour scholar just now?" Chai Yan asked.

Yan Xuehuai was peeling tea eggs and said casually: "His shop is next to my house. When my house just opened a shop on Huichang Street, his family helped us a lot."

"When your shop first opened, did you have many places to help?" Chai Yan asked again.

Yan Xuehuai didn't raise her head: "Yes, we are just a woman, and we have many inconvenient places, thanks to these neighbors."

"I was there at that time. If you have something to do, why don't you call me?" Chai Yan felt a little aggrieved. He was the earliest guest of Li Shiji. He wandered in front of Yan Xuehuai almost every day, but Yan Xuehuai would rather go to the neighbors to help than tell him.

Yan Xuehuai then raised her head, looking puzzled: "Are you very idle at that time?"

Chai Yan wanted to say, don’t you know whether I was idle or not?

But could he ask back?

cannot.

"If you have any difficulties in the future, you must notify me first."

Yan Xuehuai glanced at him, said oh, and began to peel the second tea egg again.

Chai Yan sighed. In Yan Xiangcai's eyes, he was not as good as a tea egg.

"Tomorrow, Pearl will go south with you. Zhou Dada's boss wants to come and make arrangements for what he has on the way. I may have to stay in Xinjing for a few months. After you return to the old Beijing, if you have anything to tell Pearl, he will go and ask someone to help."

Yan Xuehuai put down the tea egg, pressed his right index finger against the palm of his left hand, and made a pause: "Wait, do you still let Pearl follow me? Don't you think it's unnecessary?"

Chai Yan's face turned dim, but his voice softened: "Pearl is no longer my person. You can't break the bridge across the river. When you arrive in Jiujing, you can kick him away. You can't watch him go out to beg for help, and be bullied by evil beggars and wild dogs. He is an orphan, very pitiful."

Yan Xuehuai stared at Chai Yan and hugged him: "Your wise and honest skills are so perfect. My admiration for you is like the surging river, continuous, and like the Yellow River flooding, it is out of control. Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years, looking at the ancient and modern heroes, and counting you!"

Chai Yan was stunned for a moment, his lips pursed into a thread, and later he couldn't hold on and laughed out loud.

Yan Xuehuai looked serious and looked at Chai Yan, who was smiling without any manners in a cold manner. She came to a conclusion that no matter how handsome a person was, she would look stupid when laughing.

She knocked on the table with her finger joints: "Hey, have you laughed enough?"

Chai Yan held back his laughter and returned the greeting: "Miss Yan's words were like a sudden enlightenment, which made her suddenly realize."

Yan Xuehuai was ignoring the corner of her mouth and ignored him.

Chai Yanzhong sat upright again, but this time, he lost his previous calmness and his voice was resentful. Qiqi Aiai: "Sister Huai, just take Pearl in. OK? He only works and doesn't have to pay for his wages. Otherwise, I will let him eat only one meal a day in the future. Do you think it's okay?"

Chai Yan was so mean and Yan Xuehuai didn't want to listen to his nagging anymore, so he nodded for it: "Who do you think of my mother and me as? How can you not pay for your wages? He even asked him to just have a meal. How can he work when he is hungry?"

Chai Yan was overjoyed and grabbed Yan Xuehuai's hand on the table: "Thank you, thank you, I'll thank you for Zhenzhu..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked down at Yan Xuehuai's gaze, and then he realized that he was holding Yan Xuehuai's jade hand tightly and refused to let go.

He quickly let go of his hand: "I was wrong."

Yan Xuehuai's voice was cold: " Stay away from me."

Chai Yan raised the chair with his hand and moved it back by about a ruler: "Is it far enough? I can't hear you talking any further."

Yan Xuehuai glared at him and asked, "Is there anything else?"

Chai Yan breathed a sigh of relief and hid the hand that had just grabbed Yan Xuehuai into his sleeve.

"Xiaoman was not valued when he was a child, and no one knew him in the deep palace. Two years ago, he sat in that position in Rexiaoli. Although many court officials had seen him at that time, Du was guilty and did not conduct a grand ceremony. He just ascended the throne in a hurry. It was the filial period, so Du simply suspended the morning court and only retained the court's discussion. Later, my father sent troops, so he followed Du to Xinjing to escape. In the palace, he rarely saw his ministers, but King Fu, Qi Wei, and several cabinet masters in the cabinet knew him.

However, you don’t have to worry. I heard that children of his age have changed a lot. As long as you don’t let him appear in front of important officials of the court, you can say that as long as you insist that he is just an ordinary child, no matter who it is, you dare not put that big hat on his head."

Yan Xuehuai also thought of this. She asked Xiaoman and met several ministers. After Xiaoman talked about it, it was just the dozen common people after coming to Xinjing, which coincided with what Chai Yan said.

Seeing that she listened seriously, Chai Yan was rarely interested, so he simply said more.

"When my elder brother arrives, he will organize his funeral. After moving the capital, Emperor Baokang's imperial tomb was delayed and he did not continue to build it. The coffin is still parked in Huguo Temple. My elder brother is a pragmatic person. He will definitely not let people travel thousands of miles to carry the empty coffin back to the old capital, so in 18,000, he will find a Fengshui treasure land near Xinjing as his imperial tomb."

Yan Xuehuai was dumbfounded when she heard this. She forgot that everyone outside said that the little emperor was dead. Since he died, he would be in a funeral.

"Do we still have to mourn him?" Yan Xuehuai asked.

"The Emperor Taizu Long Yu left his ancestors' teachings when he was in funerals. The country should not be without a monarch for a day. After his death, his descendants should be mourned for three months. Within three months, the emperor should not be abandoned by the government. Civil and military officials and the people should be filial to the public for twenty-seven days. They should not enjoy themselves within a hundred days, and they should not be slaughtered for forty-nine days, and they should be prohibited from marrying within one month. This is the rule set by the ancestors, and descendants should not be able to surpass him. Therefore, at most, they should not be able to listen to operas and music within a hundred days."

After hearing Chai Yan's words, Yan Xuehuai breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't know where she saw it in her previous life. She said that the people would mourn the emperor for three years. It took three years for Yan Xuehuai to think about it.

Chai Yan thought for a while and said, "The little emperor has no children. According to the rules, he will choose a child from the royal family to adopt him. I don't know which child will be lucky."

Yan Xuehuai was surprised. Xiaoman, Xiao Douding, would have a son?

"Is this a good thing for that child?" she couldn't understand for a moment.

"It's a good thing, that child will be crowned as king." Chai Yan explained.

Yan Xuehuai sighed. Her family adopted an emperor, but she didn't have any benefits. Instead, the child who came out of nowhere turned into a lucky person.

Seeing her face hurt, Chai Yan felt aroused, and quickly whispered: "I will be the king sooner or later."

Yan Xuehuai rolled her eyelids: "Does it have anything to do with me?"

"Yes, as long as you want, I will..."

Before he could finish his words, he was ruthlessly interrupted by Yan Xuehuai: "You are a monkey, so how good you can climb along the rod?"

Chai Yan's face turned red: "Do you know what I'm going to say?"

Yan Xuehuai picked up the peeled tea egg and took a bite, too lazy to pay attention to him.

In the Duke's Mansion, Li Qiniang looked at the tall man in front of her. She had a little nervous heart, but suddenly calmed down.

"Dude, you have suffered these days."

The smile slowly emerged from Qi Wei's eyes, revealing true joy.

"That day, you went to Xiaojue Temple. Why did you still have to go there even though you knew the danger was so that the guards would go there."

His voice was gentle, but extremely penetrating, like a room with heavy curtains, with only a little bit of a gap exposed, and the sunlight shone through the gap. Even if it could not illuminate every corner, the light that penetrated the darkness was dazzling.

Li Qiniang just smiled: "The Duke of the State has saved our lives and is always a blessing from us mother and daughter. I have never known how to repay you. There are too few things that can be done for you. As for Xiaojue Temple, it was just burning incense that day, but I didn't realize it was in danger."

Qi comforted the woman in front of her. She had passed the flower letter, but she had a little more calm that the girl had not. Just looking at her, she felt comfortable and ironed, like a hot porridge cooked just right, with the mellow fragrance revealing the original refreshing of rice, which makes people feel endless aftertaste.

At this moment, Qi Wei was distracted.

After Li Qiniang finished speaking, she did not see him speak again, so she stood up and bowed: "We mother and daughter will go south tomorrow. We will never know when we will see the Duke of the Kingdom. We will never forget your great kindness."

Qi Wei finally came to his senses. Seeing Li Qiniang kneeling on her knees, she knew that she was going to kowtow to him. Fusheng was not wrong. With Li Qiniang's temper, she really wanted to kowtow to him before leaving.

He stood up in a hurry. Because he got up too quickly, his elbow hit the inkstone on the table, staining with ink.

But he didn't realize it at all, and walked to Li Qiniang in two steps in three steps.

As soon as Li Qiniang leaned down, her arm was held back. She raised her head in surprise and saw the man's enlarged face.

"National Duke..."

Qi Wei used a little force on his hand, and Li Qi Niang could only sit up straight. Qi Wei then took back her hand and said warmly: "I saved you at the beginning, but it was just a matter of raising your hands. I am an official, you are a civilian, and saving you is the duty of an official. I have only done what I should do. Don't mention the word "grace" in the future."

The house was silent, and the sound of comforting was neither anxious nor slow, like a stream in the quiet night, flowing slowly.

The warmth spread little by little in Li Qiniang's heart, and in a flash, she raised her head and said, "After that being said, we still want to thank you."

Qi Wei smiled slightly: "Okay, now you have thanked me. From now on, will we no longer have the relationship between you and me to save and be rescued?"

Li Qiniang was stunned. She couldn't figure out the meaning of Qi's comforting words for a moment.

Her face was fleeting and inadvertently pleased Qi Wei, who laughed softly: "Okay, let's not talk about this for the time being. I heard from Fusheng that you have found your biological sister. This time, I will go south with Sister Ling, but it's true?"

Speaking of this, Li Qiniang couldn't help but smile, and the joy that arises from her heart could not be blocked.

"Yes, when we parted, I was still in my infancy. I never thought that I could still be reunited with my sister in my lifetime."

Qi Wei smiled and nodded, but did not ask about her life experience, nor did she ask her who the sister who suddenly appeared was.

The man came from the south and arrived in Xinjing more than a month ago. At that time, Qingyuan had already been sealed. Without the tokens in the army, the capital could not be released. Even if there were tokens in the army and without his handwriting, he was stopped when he arrived in Qingyuan.

But that man could quietly come to Xinjing through Qingyuan's heavy guards.
Chapter completed!